Faculty/Author Profile

Eugene Scalia

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Washington, DC, USA

Eugene Scalia is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn. He is Co-Chair of the Firm’s Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Group and a member of its Labor and Employment Practice Group, which he co-chaired for twelve years. He is also a member of the Firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group.

Mr. Scalia has a national labor and employment practice handling a broad range of matters involving the NLRA, ERISA, sexual harassment and the anti-discrimination laws, and the many statutes administered by the Department of Labor. He previously served as Solicitor of the Department of Labor, the Department’s principal legal officer with responsibility for all Labor Department litigation, including ERISA, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the minimum wage and overtime provisions of the FLSA, and the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

Representation of companies and audit committees in many Sarbanes-Oxley “whistleblower” matters, including internal investigations and proceedings before the Department of Labor, administrative law judges, and the federal courts.

Mr. Scalia is identified as a leading labor and employment lawyer in Chambers, The Legal 500, and other publications. He was named the 2015 Washington, D.C. Litigation Labor and Employment Lawyer of the Year by The Best Lawyers in America®, and a 2015 Employment MVP by Law360.

Mr. Scalia graduated cum laude from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Law Review. From 1992-93 he served as Special Assistant to U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr, receiving the Department’s Edmund J. Randolph Award. He has been a Lecturer in labor and employment law at the University of Chicago Law School